Heartaches Heartaches

Okay so I’m all fired up about this one. That’s why I’m literally doing one blog post right after the other. Which is probably a blogging mistake, but I make those all the time. I always post at the wrong times, and I don’t ever put in any tags. But I don’t really care about that. I mostly do this for me anyway. It keeps me occupied.

Anyway I’m totally going to get to the point. There’s this song I totally like called Heartaches Heartaches, it’s by this guy named O.V. Wright. (P.S. if you like soul music you should totally be listening to him because he’s got it together.) Anyway, I was just looking around on Youtube for it, because I keep waiting for someone to upload it – it’s never there – and I came across a version by this lady Ann Peebles, I had never heard of her, but I was pumped that she did a version. And I was like okay I’m totally doing this one right now.

Basically, all I know about the song is that it’s on the O.V. Wright compilation I have. It attributes the song to Willie Mitchell. All that I can find out about him is that he was a producer and apparently he produced both O.V. and Ann’s albums. That’s kind of neat.  I’m assuming O.V. did it first because he released it first: as a single in 1967. I’m pretty sure it was on the album 8 men and 4 women, but I don’t know for sure, it may have been released on its own. It reached number 25 on the American R&B charts.

I don’t know much about Ann’s version. On YouTube is says it’s off of her 1972 album Straight from the Heart. That album doesn’t have its own page on Wikipedia, so that’s all I have to go off.

This is the first time I’m putting a man against a woman in this thing, so that’s kind of exciting. I am expecting to do it a couple of times later on with mixed results. This one was totally unexpected though.  I wonder who will win.

O.V. Wright: (As I said before this one isn’t on YouTube, but I was able to find it on Grooveshark. Okay, I can't get the embed to work What's up with that blogger? anyway here's a link to grooveshark, this better work).

Ann Peebles:

This is so close, I swear the next one I’m doing it going to be easy, because I keep picking ones I’m having a hard time deciding between. They both have great voices, and the songs are both probably produced by the same guy. They might even have the same band. This is too hard. I’m just sitting her listening to both versions over and over. I swear I’m not doing another tie. Damn it!